Adjustable plow-handle



(No Model.)

S. R. MONTGALM.

ADJUSTABLE PLOW HANDLE.

No. 354,609. Patented Dec. 21, 1886.

N. PEIERS, Pholo'ulhngnphur. Wuhinghm D, C.

1 vertical section of the plow-beam. Fig. 3 rep-.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

SILVARIEUS RUFUS MONTGALM, OF MODANIEL, ARKANSAS;

ADJUSTABLE PLQ W-HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,609, dated December 21, 1886.

Application filed October S, 1886. Serial No. 215,677. (No model.)

lowing is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawin s.

The object of this improvement is to provide a handle for plows connected to the plowbeam in a manner to be conveniently adjusted.

to a higher or lower position, as occasion may require, for adapting the plow to be efficiently handledby persons of different stature. These results are attained by the means illustrated in the drawings herewith filed as a part hereof, in which the same letters of reference denote the same parts in the different views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, representing a plow provided with my improved handle. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal resents a plan view of the handle detached.

A A is the plow-beam, made of metal, the curved part A of which is bifurcated or slotted for a purpose hereinafter set forth.

B isa projection from the beam, with which it may be made integral, or to which it may be affixed by any suitable means.

0 is the plow-handle, which is pivotally secured to the part B by a bolt, 0, having a cliphead, 0, and which is inserted in corresponding perforations in the handle and the perforation b in the part B, afterwhich it is provided with a flanged. washer or clip-plate, c, which, with the similarly-formed bolt-head 0, will, when the nut on the bolt is tightened, cause the parts of the handle to be firmly bound to the part B. The outer end of the part B is provided with a series of perforations, b, as fully shown in Fig. 2. The handle 0 is additionally secured to the part B by means of a bolt, 0 having a clip-head, c which is inserted in corresponding perforations in the ha'ndle and into either of the perforations b, after which it is provided with a flanged washer or clip-plate, 0*, which, with of the series b into which the bolt (1 may be inserted.

D is a shovel fixed to the beam by means of a bolt, E, which is passed through the bifurcated part of the beam and through a flanged washer, d, which forms a bearing for the nut d, which, when tightened on the bolt, binds the shovel firmly to the beam. By reason of the bifurcation of the beam the nut E and. shovel D may be moved up or down, and the shovel fixed to the beam in different relative positions for regulating the draft, as occasion may require.

The adjustment of the handle shown in Fig. 1 is adapted to persons of short stature. By reason of the series of perforations b in the part B and the handle 0 being pivotallyconnected thereto, the latter may be easily changedv to and secured in a more elevated position.

I am aware that the adjustable connection of a plow-handle with the plow is not new, and I therefore do not claim such feature, broadly; but

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let- In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SILVARIEUS RUFUS MON'ICALM.

Witnesses:

G. A. CRAWFORD, J AMES LYNOUGH. 

